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Frieze Connect members are invited to an intimate after-hours tour of Christina Kimeze: Long loops at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood, the British artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Known for her richly textured works on suede matboard, Kimeze explores liminal spaces between the internal and external world. Through ethereal landscapes, abstracted architecture, and veiled figures, her dreamlike compositions evoke both grounding and flight. With recurring motifs such as spiral staircases and roller skaters, Long loops considers identity, motion, and the poetic loops that shape a life.
The exhibition draws inspiration from the writings of Thom Gunn and Lucille Clifton, whose imagery of continuous movement and personal transformation echoes in Kimeze’s tactile, hybrid use of chalk, pastel, and oil paint. At once intimate and expansive, her work invites reflection on the unseen forces that shape how we see and are seen.
About the artist
Christina Kimeze (b. 1986) lives and works in London. She received a postgraduate degree from The Royal Drawing School in London, UK, and in 2022, she was awarded the Sir Denis Mahon Award. Prior to this, Kimeze completed an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, UK.
Kimeze’s first UK solo exhibition at South London Gallery, Between Wood and Wheel (31 January – 11 May 2025), was accompanied by a monograph that features writing by Eleanor Nairne, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a conversation between the artist and Alayo Akinkugbe, writer, art historian and founder of Instagram platform @ABlackHistoryOfArt. Recent exhibitions include Women & Freud: patients, pioneers, artists, Freud Museum, London, UK (2024); Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London, UK (2024); Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (2024); Present Tense,Hauser and Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK (2024); Something other than the world might know, White Cube, Paris, France (2023); Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK (2023); and The Great Women Artists IV, Residency at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy (2022).